Identity Cloud DevSecOps Infrastructure Engineer

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The Position

As a Identity Cloud DevSecOps Infrastructure Engineer at Roche, you will be at the forefront of optimizing the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of our Cloud Platform infrastructure.
 

Your role involves applying software engineering principles across the entire lifecycle, from inception to decommissioning. You will dive into the heart of our cloud infrastructure platforms, leveraging your specialized knowledge to optimize performance, scalability, and reliability. Be the driving force behind continuous improvements, ensuring our platforms meet and exceed the highest standards.

The Cloud platform team globally serves our internal Roche customers and IT partners designing, building and operating modern distributed systems on a Public Cloud Infrastructure globally (Europe, NALA and APAC).

Job responsibilities

• Engages in and improves, with low guidance, the whole lifecycle of cloud platforms and services—from inception and design through deployment, operation and retirement by applying software engineering principles to build and manage large scale  IT infrastructure products and services (both on-premises or in public cloud) optimizing:

  • services reliability, availability, capacity and performance  and eliminating work through automation

  • software development and deployment  by abstracting away the complexity of infrastructure providing self-service tools and APIs for developers that allow code and ship software quickly.

• Develop and grow skills in Cloud IAM: RBAC and least-privileged models, Single Sign-On, Secrets Management services and their integration with Enterprise IAM systems.

• Implements and maintains CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to easily build, test, and deploy their applications. 

• Develop self-healing features.

• Contribute to Disaster Recovery execution plans.

• Ensure IT infrastructure services reach and maintain the agreed service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), agreements (SLAs) in compliance with QA requirements.

• Contribute to the maintenance of services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.

• Contribute to activities focused on availability, tuning, performance, efficiency, change and configuration management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning.

• Ensures implemented solutions and components comply with Quality/Regulatory standards, as applicable.

• Implements cost, compliance and security best practices, ensuring that platforms and services meet the corresponding requirements

• Collaborate with developers, Managed Services suppliers, other teams and vendors to:

  • continuously improve application development velocity

  • optimize services reliability, availability and performance

• Works closely with development teams to ensure that new features and changes are rolled out with reliability in mind bringing a broader and more strategic understanding of reliability that spans multiple facets of development.

• Act as an analyst by transforming the customers and developers needs into specific technical requirements to be implemented by the product team or by other teams.

• Automate security processes to ensure seamless integration into the development workflow.

Job requirements

• You will bring 3+ years of relevant work experience in one or more multinational work environments (e.g. healthcare industry experience is a plus).

• Well proven scripting and automation skills with strong knowledge in delivering and managing infrastructure as code. 

• English language proficiency is required. Proficiency in German, Spanish or Chinese is considered a plus.

• Demonstrated customer and delivery focus mindset.

• Knowledge of agile methodologies and principles.

• Ability to continuously research, learn, innovate and share knowledge

• Ability to work effectively with team members and virtual teams from different locations and different cultural backgrounds.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Ability to function independently with low supervision and navigate ambiguity

Technology Skills:  

• Proven scripting and automation skills with expertise in delivering and managing infrastructure as code.

• Recent experience/exposure designing, implementing, operating infrastructure or designing hybrid multi cloud solutions in AWS Azure Public Cloud Platforms

• Familiarity with Software Engineering and DevOps principles and automated testing and CI/CD tools. 

• Experience working with cloud Infrastructure platforms, their availability, administration, configuration and integration.

• Creation of high-availability, fault tolerant and auto-scaled Dev/Test/Stage and Production environments using Infrastructure as Code techniques such as ARM or Terraform.

• Hands-on technical skills in automation (Python, Ansible, PowerShell, Jenkins, GitLab, Rundeck, Terraform), infrastructure as code, logging, monitoring and observability, infrastructure configuration, scripting languages and applications. Source code management (GitLab,, GitHub). 

• Experience with Infrastructure Performance Analysis, reporting and Capacity Planning is nice to have.

• DevOps Pipeline Automation experience: Gitlab CI/CD.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.